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Our mission is to invite all to strengthen their experience of the message and Spirit of Jesus and in partnership with the family, to create a Christ-centered learning environment which integrates our Catholic faith and supports the uniqueness of each person.
On behalf of our parish families, welcome to our website! Whether you are a visitor, new to the area or a parishioner, we hope you find the information helpful and inviting. May you be blessed on your faith journey to sainthood. If we can be of any help, please contact us. And please come worship with us at Immaculate Conception Parish in St. Clair and All Saints Parish in Madison Lake, Minnesota!
- Father Robert Schneider

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, ST. CLAIR, MN
Weekend Masses, Weddings and Funerals are now available for viewing on our website. If you are unable to attend Mass you can tune in and watch it live.
If you would like to listen again to Father's homily or revisit a Mass, we are archiving everything. Simply click the above light blue colored link to check out the live streaming of our Masses.
Most archives will be available for viewing for one month after they have been recorded - weddings and funerals will be stored for up to one year.
If you would like to download a recording, please email your request to the parish office and we will send you a link.

Those who have made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land have had a profound Spiritual Experience. Many tell me that they will never hear the Gospel in the same way again, once they have walked in the places mentioned in the Gospel.

The March 2018 pilgrimage was full by September of 2017, so I have scheduled a pilgrimage in March of 2019.

Please consider joining me and Fr. Kurt Farrell of St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea for the next pilgrimage, scheduled for March 18-29 of 2019. I can assure you that you will never regret the experience. You need not be Catholic to join us on this pilgrimage.

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1) Initiatives of Change have been pursuing an urgent conversation on the new leadership for longer than most companies have realised that they needed it. If you want to understand where leadership in the business world is going, you could ask for no better global guide –
Margaret Heffernan;
renowned business author, blogger and entrepreneur.

Margaret Heffernan;

2) Every time I work with Initiatives of Change I come away strengthened in my belief that business can and must be a force for good -
Mark Goyder
, Founder Director Tomorrow’s Company and author.

Mark Goyder

IofC-UK's business programme strengthens the motivations of care and moral commitment in economic life and thinking. The
‘Trust Integrity in the Global Economy’
(TIGE) programme was established following the global banking and economic crises of 2007-2008.

‘Trust Integrity in the Global Economy’

TIGE is a community and a global campaign, involving individuals and organisations practicing trust and integrity in public, corporate and private life. For 10 years TIGE held annual five-day conferences in Caux, Switerland, 2006-2016. We continue to organize forums and events which enable economic stakeholders to explore a journey of personal, organizational and societal transformation towards human and planetary wellbeing. We connect and support new economic and business models and build relationships which enable such transformation.

TIGE UK has published an integrity-training
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on Trust and Integrity in the Global Economy. It focusses on Five Pillars of Trust and Seven Cs of Trust and includes case study stories. The TIGE UK team are available to deliver workshops in business schools and organizations, based on this study guide. Previous workshop have been delivered to students at York St John University, Manchester Metropolitian University and to 500 MBA students in Pune, India. For further enquiries please
email Mike Smith
(link sends e-mail)
.

Created at CIID byArvind Sanjeev,
Lumen
is a mixed reality storytelling device that lets users explore AR/VR content without being confined to headsets or mobile devices. It uses machine learning and projection mapping to provide interactive media in the physical world by overlaying a layer of digital content on top of it.

The project explores the future implications of media without screens to see how people may interact with the environment around them.
Lumen
consists of a laser projector in combination with a camera and depth sensors and relies on the yolo darknet machine learning platform to classify objects which is then processed by the onboard algorithm that generates stories on top of the classified objects through projection mapping.

Helen Zhao responds to the claim that it is unacceptable to retain personal wealth.

According to journalist
A.Q. Smith, you’re probably living an immoral life.

In his recent article
in
Current Affairs
, Smith outright
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the obscenely rich for their wealth, but the article is not only an attack against the millionaires and billionaires of the world—in arguing that keeping any amount of wealth is immoral, it is an assault against the lifestyle enjoyed by the majority of Western society.

Smith’s logic can be boiled down to the following excerpt: “Because every dollar you have is a dollar you’re not giving to somebody else, the decision to retain wealth is a decision to deprive others.”

What follows is a condemnation of the wealthy’s most outrageous spending habits. There is nothing scandalous about critiquing the rich; there are few among us who would find nothing incongruous about seeing in succession on one’s Facebook feed an
article
on the world’s most expensive pair of earrings ($57 million) and a
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on the famine in Yemen.

This line of reasoning is not new. It has perhaps been examined most thoroughly by utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer, who offers the following thought experiment: suppose a child is drowning in a pool, and you are walking by on your way to class. Are you not morally obliged to step in and save the child? Most people agree that a moral obligation exists, and inaction is thus morally wrong. Singer then points to the “drowning children” of the world
—
for example, the thousands across the world who die each day from malaria. The charity Nothing But Nets notes on their
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that sending a bednet costs just ten dollars. Is donating a small sum to save a child from malaria not equivalent to pulling a drowning child out of a pool? If it is, then it follows that a refusal to donate said ten dollars is as morally reprehensible as walking past a drowning child without offering to help.

The natural conclusion to both Smith and Singer’s arguments is that all of us who live lives of comfort and frivolity are living immorally. Both protest this. Smith attempts to defend the assertion that moral duty becomes greater the more wealth you have, claiming the existence of some “maximum moral income” above which it is morally wrong to keep any money one may earn. First, there is the obvious fact that any such “maximum moral income” would be impossible in practice to determine. Should it be based upon what a person needs to survive? To flourish? To self-actualize? All of these are nebulous concepts with no universal dollar amounts attached. Second, this runs contrary to his most important line of reasoning: that it is wrong to use money for any purpose other than helping those who need it more. To illustrate this point, let us consider an amendment to Singer’s analogy.